Chapter 269 Crimson Mirror

[Detected that the player triggered a special (*&)&%￥……]

[Adjusting player status. ]

[The field of view has been changed to human eyes. As compensation for system errors, your status will remain the same. You will not die from weakness, hunger, etc., and you do not need to eat. ]

Xu Zhiyan collapsed on the ground, and his eyes went dark in a physical sense.

The dog system adjusted his vision to human eye mode. Just now he could see the dim surroundings clearly, but now he can't see anything at all!

Fortunately, the game panel is bright.

When he glanced at the words on the panel, he was a little confused for a moment.

[Countdown starts]

【49:21:48】

At the bottom of the prompt, a countdown panel appears.

What? Why is there a countdown?

And the countdown time is a bit strange.

Normally, the game would give a whole number countdown, perhaps ten hours, or a hundred minutes, or if calculated by day it would be twenty-four or twelve hours.

This time, Xu Zhiyan was a little confused.

If it was forty-eight hours, he could still understand it as two days, but why were there twenty-one minutes and forty-eight seconds left at the end?

He tried to communicate with the system.

The first voice he spoke was not a human voice.

"Meow!"

Xu Zhiyan was startled by the sound of a cat meowing so faint that it was almost inaudible.

But this sound seemed to alert the system.

[Adjusting the player's voice status. 】

[Other creatures still meow when they hear you speak]

【Next you can choose between two modes. 】

[1. Once you speak, your meaning can be conveyed to the cat, but you cannot understand human language or cat language.]

[2. You can understand human speech, but other cats and humans cannot understand you.]

[This is the greatest convenience this system provides you. Otherwise, if you open your mouth to speak, you will die immediately due to abnormal state.]

"...Thank you so much."

The corners of Xu Zhiyan's mouth twitched, and he resisted the urge to curse.

"Can I ask to understand cat talk?"

There was a litter of kittens sleeping next to him. He was not sure where this place was, but it would be great if he could get some information from the kittens.

[It's not impossible, but the system recommends that you don't do it. ]

[If you want to live in animal form, your intelligence will quickly drop to that of a cat, and you will need to eat cat food and use a litter box...]

"Stop!"

Xu Zhiyan felt his scalp tingling and he stopped immediately.

"I choose 1!"

"The current status is perfect. Thank you system, you are a really good system."

Damn it, he felt that this state of reduced intelligence was truly the most terrifying state in the world!

As for eating cat food and using cat litter boxes, which are unacceptable to humans, they do not seem so scary in the face of reduced intelligence. After all, when intelligence is reduced to a certain level, the sense of shame will disappear.

He no longer worried about the state of his cat's body and human heart.

"What does the countdown mean? What exactly have I triggered? What do I need to do now?"

Compared to his condition, these issues are what worry him the most.

【I'm sorry, due to a system error, I can't provide you with any information. 】

Xu Zhiyan looked at the words, and his blood pressure finally couldn't be suppressed, and it kept rising. But now was not the time to pursue it, he needed to understand his own situation first.

Skill failure.

Personal backpack and guild backpack cannot be opened.

After a simple attempt, he couldn't believe that he had really turned into a cat!

As if he had thought of something, he tapped the system panel with his dry nose, opened the guild interface, and tried to input some text on it, but his movements were too clumsy and he couldn't type a single word for a long time. Unexpectedly, the message from his teammates arrived first.

[Jiang Huai Que: @Xu Zhiyan, why didn't you go back to the sixth floor? Yu Xiu and I have successfully obtained the mirror and come out.]

Xu Zhiyan wanted to explain his current situation, but before he could finish sending the message, he saw the latest information from his teammates and learned the cause and effect.

[Jiang Huai Que: Damn, are you okay? I went to the third floor to find your room, but the door was closed and I couldn't go in.]

[Jiang Huai Que: Damn it, Xu Bapi, don't worry... Yu Bai's stupid teammate has also encountered the same thing, wait for me to find some information.]

[Jiang Huai Que: Damn! If I use someone else's flag item to enter a room, it will disappear. Damn it...]

[Jiang Huai Que: Are you okay? Can you see my message? Write back! ]

Looking at his teammates swearing, Xu Zhiyan felt very complicated.

【Xu Zhiyan: 1】

The good news is that the other two teammates were not forced into any messy space, the bad news is that he may have to be a cat for a while.

As he couldn't walk yet, he decided to communicate the problem with his teammates first.

In the dark little box, a weak cat was trying hard to touch the panel with the tip of its nose, and it was very hard.

In the live broadcast room, the audience has already deduced the reasons and clues.

[Xiao Baiwan is really miserable. Only two people triggered this wrong mission this time. ]

[Wei Guang, this B guy, really doesn't give up. ]

[Yes, he seems to have some serious brain disease, his heart is smaller than a needle tip, he was rejected before and he insisted on stealing other people's flags, isn't he a jerk. ]

[Using someone else's flag to search for a mirror will trigger an unlucky mission. ]

[So how do you clear the level? ]

[Sister Bo is a good person. She just found a clue. Actually, she found the mirror, but this time she seems to have to find it in the space she entered.]

[After the rest of the people find the mirror, a new task will be triggered]

[I don’t understand what this countdown is. Wei Guang’s countdown duration is different from Xiao Baiwan’s…]

Soon, Xu Zhiyan got the hot clues that Jiang Huaiqie found.

[Jiang Huai Que: There is news from Yu Bai. She caught the man whose flag was stolen by Wei Guang and forced her to look at his task panel. She said that the character had triggered an abnormality and needed to find a mirror in the current space to complete the task.]

[Jiang Huai Que: Our new mission has also been issued. It is an open mission. There are only prompts. The mirror hall on the eighth floor will be open after midnight. ]

[Jiang Huai Que: If you can't type smoothly, don't type anymore. Just focus on finding the mirror. Yu Xiu and I will go explore the eighth floor tonight. I'll tell you if there's anything I need to know. Don't worry.]

After reading it, Xu Zhiyan typed 1 with tears in his eyes.

After a busy period, he finally dealt with the human issues. Next he had to deal with the cat problem.

He didn't know if it was because he poked the panel with his nose, but he felt his nose was a little uncomfortable, dry and a little painful. Recalling what cats usually do, he tried to lick his nose with his tongue.

...Yeah, it's really dry.

Xu Zhiyan vaguely remembered Jin Sheng saying that the noses of small animals are always moist, and if they are dry, they must be sick.

Coupled with his current weak state and the dull pain in his body, he felt like he was dressed like a sick cat and might be running a fever.

Tsk, what a bad start.

However, considering that his status had been locked anyway and he didn't need to eat to survive, Xu Zhiyan manipulated his unskilled limbs, stood up shakily, and began to practice how to be an agile kitten.

An hour passed.

Xu Maomao, who possesses the soul of an adult, has learned to control his limbs and can walk, run and jump normally.

During this time, he took a thorough look at the surrounding environment with the faint light emitted from the panel.

He was in a big cardboard box.

The source of the heat I felt just now was the kittens curled up and sleeping next to me. There were eleven of them stacked together, and judging from their colors and sizes, they were most likely from the same litter.

Suddenly there were so many "brothers and sisters", this feeling was a bit novel, Xu Zhiyan took the opportunity to touch them a few times while jumping around.

Hot, soft and feels great.

There is a grid-like iron net on the top of the box to prevent the kitten in the box from escaping. There are two pieces of wood standing on both sides slightly above the grid, and there seems to be something on top of them.

But his ability is limited now, and he can't see clearly even if he climbs up.

After moving around for a while, seeing that the countdown had turned to 47, Xu Zhiyan looked around but couldn't find a mirror. Finally, he set his sights on the pile of kittens.

He relied on the fact that he had a human soul and immediately got into the pile of cats...

Soon, some kittens also made humming sounds. These little kittens who had just opened their eyes had no idea what was happening.

He touched this one, pushed that one, and searched around but couldn't find the mirror... Instead, he touched a cold kitten.

Considering his own poor health, he thought that this litter of kittens might have been born prematurely, so their health was not very good. It seemed normal that some of them died prematurely?

Push the lifeless kitten aside.

I'm free anyway.

He was afraid that one of the kittens would suffocate if they huddled together, so he began to use his furry paws to separate the other kittens...even though Xu Zhiyan was not sure whether the cats would suffocate to death if they huddled together to sleep.

This immersive cat-stroking experience made the audience in the live broadcast room very excited.

[Wow, wow, wow, I used to think that people would feel good when petting cats, but I didn’t expect cats would also feel so good when petting cats! ]

[It's normal. Imagine your cat is the same size as you, lying softly on the bed for you to touch as you like, slurp! ]

[I always feel like something is wrong, but I don’t know what it is.]

[+1, I want to know what Xiao Baiwan will do next. This mission is really confusing.]

[Wei Guang has a higher degree of freedom. He has become a human and can explore freely, but Xiao Baiwan is really unable to do anything.]

[Wait, have you noticed that there seem to be more people in the live broadcast room? ]

Maybe someone spread the news about Xu Zhiyan's immersive cat-stroking, and many new people came to his live broadcast room.

These people who came just to pet the cats were obviously much more unrestrained than the audience in Xu Zhiyan’s original live broadcast room, and barrages of comments instantly filled the screen.

[Oh wow! It's just as cute as it sounds! ]

[Suck, suck, suck! I sucked them all bald!!]

[Ah! ! Who melted? I melted! How can there be such a perspective of cat-loving experience in the world! ]

[@Main system, can the cat cafe provide a super-large cat experience? Just like the one on the screen, it's cool to look at. ]

[? ? Don't be too outrageous, a cat as big as a human will easily kill you! ]

[Hey? What do you think Boss Xu is doing? ]

Before the enthusiastic cat lover could give suggestions to the main system, all the audience's eyes fell on Xu Zhiyan again.

After separating the sleeping kittens, he was sure that he had completely explored the space. He could not find any clues next. Since there were no more secrets in the cardboard box, he would start exploring the outside.

Showing his sharp nails, Xu Zhiyan judged the direction of the wind based on the slightest amount of wind, selected a spot on one side of the cardboard box, and started digging at it non-stop.

Time passes by little by little.

The results soon showed up - he made a small hole in the cardboard box.

It’s a pity that there were no lights on outside.

Xu Zhiyan stared at the hole for a long time but couldn't see anything.

When he was about to give up, he suddenly heard a series of cat meows outside the box.

"Meow--"

"Meow~"

“Meow…meow!”

“…”

The noise was loud and chaotic, and there were so many cats. A rough estimate was that there were at least seventy or eighty cats.

Xu Zhiyan came back to his senses and heard the sound of human conversation.

"!#&（%￥&）..."

The rough male voice was getting closer, but unfortunately he couldn't understand what the other person was saying. He could only judge from the tone that the man was a little anxious.

“Bang!”

The light is on.

Xu Zhiyan, who had been staring at the small hole in the cardboard, was almost blinded by the bright light.

But now that there was light, he discovered a problem.

Not only did he not hear any sound in his right ear, his left eye also seemed to be not in good condition. He didn't feel anything when it was dark just now, but now that the lights were on, he could see things blurry with his left eye.

He suppressed the strange feeling and before he could take a good look at his surroundings, the man strode in.

Xu Zhiyan was slightly stunned.

Men have no faces.

Although he was holding the phone and seemed to be having a conversation, his entire face was blurry and looked very scary.

The faceless man walked in and checked several boxes around him. He took out a big cat from a short box. The cat looked very similar to Jin Sheng's companion...

Xu Zhiyan's heart sank.

When the system asked him to choose the language mode before, why did he choose the one that could make the cat understand him? Wasn't it because he thought that as a human being, he could read lip movements?

This person is a faceless person...

Damn, that messed up his plans.

Without waiting for him to look again, the man put the cat down and walked straight to the cardboard box where Xu Zhiyan was.

There was a friction sound of something being moved.

Soon, Xu Zhiyan experienced looking at humans from a cat's perspective...it was too scary.

He felt he should do something.

But when the huge hand fell from the sky, he found that he seemed to be unable to do anything and seemed to have lost control of his body.

The faceless man's surprised voice came from above.

Xu Zhiyan felt himself being grabbed by the scruff of the neck and stuffed into a cat bag. The whole process took less than a minute.

The view is again obstructed.

He heard the man say something else into the box.

A turbulent movement began, and Xu Zhiyan realized that he had been handed over to another person...

After his narrow vision shook violently, he glanced at what was in front of him, but before he could take any further look, he was taken to another room.

No one took him out.

After calling out twice and no one answered, Xu Zhiyan lay in his bag, lying there in a mess.

Maybe it’s because I’ve been too active just now and I’m too tired.

After lying there for a while, he felt his eyelids drooping and the whole cat fell into a deep sleep.

I don’t know how much time has passed.

Xu Zhiyan felt like a small fishing boat floating on the sea. When he staggered out of the cat bag, the scene in front of him had completely changed.

It is a spacious and bright living room.

The decoration is quite nice, and you can tell that the owner of the house is well off.

Yawning, Xu Zhiyan stood up and shook his head.

Although his intelligence has not decreased, he always feels that the cat's characteristics are affecting him, for example, he has not gotten enough sleep.

Turning around, the little kitten was almost frightened to death.

A faceless person with long hair and wearing shorts and short-sleeved shirt was squatting beside him, staring at him. From her trembling fingers, it could be seen that the other party was very cautious.

Feeling a finger landing on his forehead and rubbing it gently, Xu Zhiyan frowned and made a dissatisfied sound.

"……Meow."

The soft and cute cat's cry irritated the faceless man.

Xu Zhiyan sat in the cat bag and watched the faceless man retract his fingers. He then hugged his arms and began to scream and jump around, making the floor thump.

“…”

Xu Zhiyan tilted his head, a little speechless.

Although I don't know what this faceless man is talking about, this situation is a bit similar to that of some humans who take kittens home for the first time.

He waited until the other person stopped jumping before slowly walking out of the cat bag.

The little kitten raised its furry head high, as if frowning, with an expression that showed a bit of disgust and helplessness... He hadn't found a mirror yet, so Xu Zhiyan didn't know how cute he looked at the moment.

This time, there was no need for the faceless man to jump wildly, the barrage of comments started to absorb it.

【Ahhhhhhh I'm dead! 】

[Grass, grass, grass, it's really cute! 】

[Wow, so humans really can’t give birth to kittens? 】

[Don't be so ridiculous above. ]

[? You are the one above, right? You can’t give birth to kittens so you are jealous of others? ]

[Suck it up! ! Ah! It's so cute! ]

[I am different. I am taking screenshots.]

The audience who came from afar to pet the cats enjoyed it very much, but the die-hard fans of Xu Zhiyan’s live broadcast room were worried.

[So the mirror will be in this place? ]

[Xiao Baiwan fell asleep on the road just now. I observed that this city looks a bit weird.]

[…People have no face, so of course it’s weird! ]

[But to be honest, Xu Maomao is really cute. ]

[It seems that more than one faceless monster has left this house. Oh, oh, oh, is she really overwhelmed? Tsk, so many snacks...]

Xu Zhiyan is not afraid of people after leaving the cat bag.

He didn't want to crawl under the bed or spend the night under the sofa, so when the faceless man took him to his room, he walked very naturally, which caused the faceless man to take out his mobile phone and take pictures.

Soon, Xu Zhiyan saw his next residence.

The faceless man who bought the cat should have been fully prepared and prepared a room for the new kitten in advance.

This spacious and bright room has floor-to-ceiling windows on one side.

On the left hand side as you enter the room is a five-story cat villa with a glass door. There is a cat climbing frame in the room that goes all the way to the ceiling, various cat toys are scattered on the floor, there are several cat beds of all sizes with all kinds of materials, and there are four cat bowls and a mobile water dispenser on a beautiful wooden rack.

The cat bowl was overflowing.

Cat food, cat snacks, boiled meat, canned cat food...

Xu Zhiyan strode around with his head held high, nodded slightly to the faceless man and called out, which earned him an excited scream.

Well, that was a bit unexpected.

At first he thought he would become a stray cat fighting an old wild cat.

The unexpected treatment made him feel relieved.

After the Faceless Man received a phone call and left the house immediately, Xu Zhiyan and the cat were the only ones left in the room.

【40:12:09】

The countdown has reached nine hours.

Looking at the time on the panel, he was a little stunned.

He was sure he had only dozed off for a moment, but how had so much time passed so quickly? Did it take seven hours to get from the dim little box to here?

He glanced at the guild panel to make sure that the feedback from his teammates was normal. He walked to the glass window and looked at the setting sun. It was almost night, and he was not sure whether the faceless man would come back...

Xu Zhiyan turned the cat's head and began to look for the mirror in the room.

He still remembered that this was not the real world and he had to find the mirror to complete the task. I'm afraid the countdown is the time required to complete the task.

Forty hours, not too much, not too little either.

However, Xu Zhiyan forgot that he was now a little kitten. After checking the living room and the corridor, he felt that he could not walk anymore and needed to rest.

Returning to the cat's room, Xu Zhiyan glanced at the curtains. After thinking about it, he felt that the kitten didn't seem to need any privacy.

He randomly found a cat sofa near the floor-to-ceiling window, lay down comfortably, and started brainstorming.

Where will the mirror be?

The birth point had been searched, and the rest of the place was also full of cats. He subconsciously felt that the mirror would not be placed in a shallow position. Since the dungeon had set up this task, there must be some deep meaning...

It was completely dark.

Just as Xu Zhiyan continued to think, he suddenly heard a sudden thumping sound.

He turned his head and looked out the window, and the hair on his tail instantly stood up.

There is a cat sitting outside the French window.

It is an adult white cat with heterochromatic eyes that looks very fierce.

Being stared at by the red and blue pupils of a feline, I felt like I was about to become prey.

Looking at the thick skeleton of the cat, Xu Zhiyan judged that it was a male cat. Combined with the scar on its ear, he felt that this white cat was most likely a wild cat fighting for territory.

After finishing the analysis, Xu Zhiyan stood up, stretched, and walked slowly to the glass.

That’s great. He was just worrying about how to command the other cats. Now he’s sleepy, is there anyone who can give him a pillow?

Separated by a layer of glass, you feel safe.

The kitten looked up at the white cat outside the glass and patted the glass with its pink paw pads.

"Meow~~"

If you help me find something, I'll give you some snacks.

After calling, the kitten ran to the cat bowl rack with its tail wagging, pulled out a piece of dried meat from the snack bowl, and walked back to the glass with difficulty.

"Meow--"

Find the mirror and it's yours!

Xu Zhiyan thought this was fair.

He provided the food and the big wild cats provided the labor.

Seeing that the wild cat didn't make a sound and seemed not to believe it, he ran to the bowl, picked up a slightly smaller piece of dried meat, and jumped onto the window.

Soon, with his efforts, the jerky was thrown out through the small gap in the iron net.

"Meow--"

This is an advance payment, a mirror and a piece of meat.

However, the white cat outside the glass seemed stupid. It didn't even look at the meat. Its eyes were fixed on the kitten working back and forth.

Seeing this, Xu Zhiyan was a little unsure.

Is the cat outside the window a fool?

Just then, he threw out some jerky which seemed to attract other animals.

That's a dog.

"Woof! Woof!"

Xu Zhiyan's whole body froze and he almost fell off the window frame. All the short hair on his body stood up, making him look like a furry hedgehog.

When he came to his senses and fell to the ground trembling, the white cat finally moved.

A white figure rushed out like lightning. Before Xu Zhiyan could react, the stray dog attracted by the dried meat let out a cry of grievance as if it had been beaten.

“Woo—woo…”

In less than two minutes, Xu Zhiyan saw the dog running away with its tail between its legs.

After the big white cat beat the dog, he didn't even look at the jerky.

It ran back to the glass and sat as close to Xu Zhiyan as possible, with some blood stains on the white fur of its front paws.

“…Ah, this?”

Xu Zhiyan was a little confused.

After much difficulty, he found a wild cat to trade with, but why did the other party seem to have no worldly desires? Could it be that the jerky he bought from his cheap servants was not tasty?

While thinking, the little kitten couldn't help but tilt its head left and right.

Xu Maomao was so serious that he didn't realize his subconscious actions. Before he could figure out what was going on, the white cat outside the window stood up and walked back and forth.

The next second, Xu Zhiyan watched the white stray cat nimbly jump onto the top window and easily push open the window that was not sealed.

...Pushed it away? Pushed it away!

Xu Zhiyan was a little panicked.

Damn, this big wild cat looks like he can fight a lot. It's no problem to beat him up 200 times. Where's the faceless man? Why doesn't he go home to save the day?

In panic, the big white cat gradually approached.

Xu Zhiyan wanted to run, but he knew very well that he couldn't.

"…Meow."

Brother, the rice bowl is on the other side!

The shadow loomed, and the kitten subconsciously closed its eyes, seeming to be very scared.

However, after a while, Xu Zhiyan felt a strange sensation on his forehead, coupled with the sound...

???

Wait, why did this big white cat start licking his fur?